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Home Chinuch (3) Chumash (16) Halacha (948) Hashkafa (21) Miscellaneous (65) Money Matters (43) • Parshas Tzav: Rabbeinu Bachaye - Covering the Shame of Sinners • Parshas Pinchas: Rav Yehonoson Eibshitz - Where did Zimri the Great Tzaddik go Wrong? • Showering the Night Before a Taanis • Ha Lachma Anya: Rav Eliyahu Dessler - Celebrating Freedom With Poor Bread • Rav Yaakov Edelstein - The Two Words He Wanted to Be Able to Speak   Email To a Friend: http://revach.net/ask/article.php?id=939 Recipient's Email(s) required note:to send to many email addresses, put a comma in-between. Your Name (optional): Your Email Address required: Extra Comments:(optional) Type Image Code Security Code: TAGS:Choshen Mishpat  gift  neder  tzedaka Money Matters - Wedding Gift Submitted by Yosef  Answered by Rav Yehonoson Hool Question: Answer:  If the receiver is a poor person, any declared intent to give him a gift would constitute a neder for tzedakah. Even if the receiver is not poor, if one informs another that he intends to give him a gift, and the circumstances give him no reason to doubt you (e.g. the gift is not of significant value) one is obliged to keep one's word. One who does not so do is referred to in the Gemora as mechusar amonoh - untrustworthy. (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpot 241:2) posted:2008-12-10 15:23:54 printable version     email to a friend  "Zissen" Pesach Toivel Hot water Urn Bracha for bANANAS sprinkler on Shabbos clock shaving body Wedding Gift item on an auction site labeled "Not For Resale" Gambling? Employer owes money Job Interviews